Extraction vs Infusion - What's the difference?
extraction | infusion |
As nouns the difference between extraction and infusion is that extraction is an act of extracting or the condition of being extracted while infusion is tea ( infusion made from herbs).
extraction English
Noun
( en noun)
An act of extracting or the condition of being extracted.
A person's origin or ancestry.
Something extracted, an extract, as from a plant or an organ of an animal etc.
* Milton
- They [books] do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
(military) An act of removing someone from a hostile area to a secure location.
(dentistry) A removal of a tooth from its socket.
Synonyms
* descent, lineage
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infusion English
Noun
( en noun)
A product consisting of a liquid which has had other ingredients steeped in it to extract useful qualities.
- An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion .
The act of steeping or soaking a substance in liquid so as to extract medicinal or herbal qualities.
The act of installing a quality into a person.
* 1602 : , act V scene 1
- [...] but in the verity of extolment / I take him to be a soul of great article and his infusion / of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of / him, his semblable in his mirror, and who else would / trace him, his umbrage, nothing more.
(obsolete) The act of dipping into a fluid.
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